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DavidGilbert99 writes:
Trying to stand out in the smartphone market is hard. So hard in fact that one Chinese company has resorted to putting a motorised, rotating camera on its latest smartphone, with the Oppo N3 promising to automatically track your subject...
65895795
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
North Korea's elite cyber-warfare unit has been building smartphone games, but unlike Angry Birds and Candy Crush, these games have been designed to infect the smartphones of South Koreans with up to 20,000 falling victim between May and September this year
65856495
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
Not happy with blindly choosing what strain of cannabis you smoke? Well worry not as Budzster is hoping solve your problem by providing personalised marijuana recommendations for users, based on their personal preferences....what could go wrong?
65705253
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
Up to three million visitors to some of the web's more popular websites — like Yahoo, AOL and Match.com — are being put at risk of being infected with the pernicious ransomware known as CryptoWall through malicious advertisements, with the criminal gang behind the campaign thought to be raking in $25,000-a-day
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
New research shows that Apple's mobile devices dominate the email landscape in the UK, with 46% of all emails opened there being done on an iPhone with a further 18% on iPad. Despite Android being the dominant smartphone market leader with a 60% share, emails opened on Google's mobile operating system fell by a huge 31% between 2013 and 2014.
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
Leaked iPhone 6 pictures? Sure, there are dozens available. iPad Air 2? Yep, we've got a few of them too. But iWatch photos? Nada, Zip, Zilch. Zero. The reason? This is a new Apple product and even though there has been a lot of talk about it, very few people are likely to know what it looks like, unlike the iPhone 6 which is already in mass production in factories across China.
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
The popularity of Tor is growing with the anonymity network having up to 2.5 million people using it at any one time, but as it get more popular, the foundation set up to over see its development struggles to cope. And that is why the executive director of the Tor Project believe that only a company like Facebook, Google or Twitter can take it on and make it mainstream
63776451
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
Researchers will publish a study on Friday which claims that apps on Android, Windows Phone and iOS are all vulnerable to a previously unseen attack vector, which can steal sensitive data like login details, credit card numbers and even pictures. Shown working on Android, the attack was successful in stealing login credentials of the Gmail app 92% of the time.
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
Research suggests that if we wanted to live in a world without pop-up ads for penis enlargement tablets, then it would cost everyone $230 per year. So how many people would be willing to stump up this kind of cash? Just 2% of the population apparently...
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
Apple is still a relative new-comer to the Chinese market. In this market Xiaomi is now the biggest player, while Apple's isn't even in the top five smartphone vendors. Add to that uncertainty about enforcing patents in China, as well as a lack of detail about Xiaomi's own patents,and it is easy to see why Apple may not be willing to rock the boat — though that could all change if/when Xiaomi expands beyond China
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
There has been a significant increase in the amount of malware being spread by a group of highly organised hackers based in Syria, who are using social media, instant messaging apps and YouTube to spread malware, as well as embedding it in website visited by Syrian activists.
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
While the Gaza Strip and a small town in Missouri may not look like they'll have anything in common but as a result of police firing tear gas at protestors in Ferguson on Wednesday night, they now at least have one thing in common. As a result of the increased police action, people from Gaza began tweeting people in Ferguson with advice on how to avoid being fired upon and what to do to limit the pain when you are hit.
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
Finnish security firm F-Secure has seemingly proven that Xiaomi smartphones do in fact upload user data without their permission/knowledge despite the company strongly denying these allegations as late as 30 July.
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
Israel is under fire in cyber space with DDoS attacks against it increasing 500% in the last month. Research published by Arbor suggests that the powerful Brobot botnet is being used to attack website in Israel and David Gilbert at IBTimes UK suggests it could be linked to Anonymous' on-going #OpSaveGaza campaign.
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
Google has silently released a very significant update to its Google Now Launcher app. Previously limited to Nexus devices, the app now works with any smartphone or tablet running Android 4.1 or above and allows users to experience the stock Android interface rather than the manufacturer-imposed skin. This is the first step on a major push by Google to wrestle back control of Android from the likes of Samsung, HTC and LG.
